December 2008
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Free Gaza Goes Fourth – Setting Sail Again The Newsletter of the Free Gaza Movement 1/2008, Dec. 8
The Free Gaza Movement has successfully sailed three times from Cyprus to Gaza in a historic and ongoing endeavor to break the siege of Gaza. Now it goes fourth. The next voyage is scheduled for this Monday night and the ship has left the port. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Dignity to Gaza – “We’re Back!” – Fourth Successful Voyage Breaks Through Siege of Gaza
The Free Gaza Movement ship “Dignity” successfully broke through the Israeli blockade for the fourth time since August, arriving in Gaza Port at 2:45pm, Tuesday 9 December. The ship carried one ton of medical supplies and high-protein baby formula, in addition to a delegation of international academics, humanitarian and human rights workers. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Update on the Dignity’s journey to Gaza (11am 9 Dec)
We haven’t been able to establish phone contact with the Dignity, but the last GPS position at 8:30am put them in international waters, off the coast of Haifa – right on schedule to reach Gaza today around mid-afternoon Continue reading
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The last time I was out of prison, I went to see my dad.
I first went to prison on September 23 and served 35 days. I am lucky, after 2 times in jail, I got a medical discharge, but I’m the only one. By the time you read this, many of my friends will be in prison too: in for three weeks, out for one, and then back… Continue reading
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BRITISH ACADEMICS TO BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA: BOAT LEAVES CYPRUS TO IMPLEMENT ‘RIGHT TO STUDY’ OF PALESTINIAN STUDENTS
Two Jewish academics from the UK, Emeritus Professor Jonathan Rosenhead and Research Fellow Mike Cushman, both from the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, have joined the latest ‘Free Gaza’ boat in an attempt to enable Palestinian university students to pursue their studies abroad. Continue reading
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Keith Harmon Snow: Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa Part 2
War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as ‘news’. Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual. Continue reading
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Reham Alhelsi – Despite all odds, Palestinians carry on with living in the Heart of Hebron
The presence of these illegal settlers in the heart of Hebron, mainly in the Casaba, had led to the closure of many commercial shops, and many residents were either forced out of their houses or left due to lack of security and livelihood. Severe restrictions are placed upon the Palestinians, including restrictions on movement in… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israeli Government says “Free Gaza is a cool idea”
Israel’s siege is directly preventing all the people of Gaza from accessing clean water, electricity, adequate food supplies, and freedom of movement to seek essential medical care, educational development, as well as from being able to freely visit with family and friends. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: ‘Free Gaza’ Ship Leaves Today to Break Through Israeli Blockade for the Fourth Time
The Free Gaza Movement announced today that it would send a delegation from Cyprus to Gaza aboard their blockade-busting ship, the Dignity, at 11pm, Monday, 8 December. Continue reading
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Don Mattera on Jerusalema: SA's Oscar Hope…
In Jerusalema, the Hollywood spectre almost consumes the narrative of South Africa’s urban cities, as they struggle to combat and overcome the insidious local and foreign sub-culture of criminality, corruption and the usurpation of our social edifices before our very eyes. Continue reading
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Ilan Pappe: State of Denial: Israel, 1948-2008
As long as the moral lesson is not learned, the state of Israel will continue to exist as a hostile enclave at the heart of the Arab world. It would remain the last reminder of the colonialist past that complicates not only Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians, but with the Arab world as a whole. Continue reading
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Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the… Continue reading
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MIR: West Bank Stories
6 December, 2008 Warning.This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Palestinians brace themselves for more attacks by extremist Israeli settlers. Will the Israeli government be able to contain the violence? And can Palestinians win in Israeli courts? Answers to these questions Continue reading
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Eileen Fleming: GazaFriends – Kidnapped at Gunpoint and Deported by Israeli Forces: And She Will Return
On November 18, 2008, Darlene Wallach of California was kidnapped at gunpoint by Israeli forces and deported to New York City on Thanksgiving Day. She arrived without money, passport, cell phone, warm winter clothes and had no way of contacting her family and friends in California, London, or Cyprus. Continue reading
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Kathleen and Bill Christison – Will You Continue to Ignore Gaza’s Suffering, Mr Obama?
Right now, the circumstances could not be more inhumane. Right now, the paramount Palestinian crisis is in Gaza, where Israel – with active political and ongoing financial backing from the United States – is blockading a tiny, horribly overcrowded piece of land and consciously depriving its 1.5 million people of all of the essentials of… Continue reading
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Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family. The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at Continue reading
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